The Independent also ran a second article — The new tax resistance? — about a Baltimore woman named Kesh, who has stopped paying her taxes:

This year she isn’t paying because she began thinking more about where her
tax money goes and she feels like she can’t keep paying the government. “It’s
not going to anything that I can see personally that is going to benefit me,”
Kesh, who asked that only her first name be used, says. “But me paying it is
definitely going to hit me. Not having that money that needs to go towards
other things that I have to pay — that affects me immediately. That’s a loss
for me.”

The inauguration of President Donald Trump only worsened her feeling about
the situation. First, because she has her doubts about whether Trump has
bothered to pay his fair share of taxes, and second, because his
administration seems to be waging a war against people like her. “I’m all the
groups that are hated. I’ve decided to come to earth in this body and be
black, be a woman, gay, so you know, I get hit on every side of it,” she
says. “I was a teenaged mother, I’m a single mom — I’m all the things [Trump
and Republicans] hate.”

Living in Baltimore, where Freddie Gray died in police custody in April 2015
and where just last week, Attorney General Jeff Sessions tried to hamper
police reform, taxes funding the police are an issue for her as well. (Police
are primarily funded through local and state governments, but Kesh isn’t
paying state taxes either.)

“I know that my tax money is going to the police and I can walk down the
street and get shot,” she says. “I can get shot by my own money and get
killed by my own money and there’s no one that’s gonna do shit about it. So
basically I’m giving you money to kill me and people that look like me.”

Unlike long-time tax resisters, Kesh is new to this. She doesn’t know where
it will lead her yet — hence her decision not to use her name. The Internal
Revenue Service may target her, but not paying feels right.

The Satyagraha Foundation for Nonviolence Studies is continuing its series
on tax resistance with
A
Call for Tax Resistance — “a joint appeal from leading nonviolent
activists and organizations, urging US taxpayers to nonviolently express
their opposition to the policies of the Trump administration by refusing to
pay a symbolic amount of their US federal income tax, and instead donate
that amount to a deserving charity or institution.”

War tax resisters’ letters-to-the-editor and op-eds are starting to
appear, too, including ones from:

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